Gas stove for home - comfortable heating

Owners of private country houses, at any given opportunity, do not refuse to build their own baths. The presence of a full-fledged bathroom usually does not affect this decision in any way - you must admit that you cannot even closely compare the usual washing in a bath or shower stall with a full-fledged, one might say, ritual of taking bath procedures in a real steam room. The process of equipping an individual bath in our time is significantly simplified by the fact that a fairly wide range of stoves, heaters, necessary for this purpose, are on sale.

Gas ovens for a bath

However, when choosing a heating unit, sometimes the owners begin to doubt which principle of operation of the furnace will be optimal. Of course, many believe that only firewood should be used for a bath. However, wood-burning stoves are not quite convenient in operation, since they require constant monitoring of combustion and replenishment of the fuel bookmark. Solid fuel stocks must be provided with a place and the required storage conditions, and not in all regions of Russia, firewood can be attributed to publicly available materials. Electricity? - yes, it is very convenient, but the cost of such an energy source simply scares away many.

Well, gas stoves for a bath can be an excellent alternative. And there is no need to be afraid that gas is not able to create a real "bath atmosphere". The design of modern gas bath stoves is such that it provides the required level of operational safety, fast, complete, uniform, and, importantly, easy-to-control heating of the steam room to the level required by the owner.

What are the advantages of using gas sauna stoves?

Compared to their wood-burning "brethren", gas bath stoves differ in a number of significant advantages:

• Almost all models have a thermostatic control system. And this means that there is no need to be distracted by maintaining the required temperature in the process of adopting bath procedures - to put firewood, change the position of the blowing window, etc. It is enough to set the required heating level in the steam room in advance - everything else will be taken over by the automatic control system.

The thermostatic control system for gas burners allows you to set the desired temperature - and no longer be distracted by this matter while taking bath procedures

• Modern gas ovens are extremely easy to operate. They are equipped with all the necessary levels of control and safety.
• Wood stoves have to be cleaned of accumulated ash literally after each kindling. There is no such problem in gas installations. Prevention is certainly necessary, but its frequency, as a rule, does not exceed twice a year. By the way, this also applies to the chimney for a bath - solid combustion products in smoke from wood - incomparably more than when burning gas.
• When using natural gas network, no questions arise with the organization of fuel storage, with its delivery to the bathhouse. It is enough to turn on the tap and the stove can be ignited. If LPG is used in cylinders, then this is a little more complicated. But for cylinders, too, you can once organize a compact gearbox near the outer wall of the bath, stretch the hoses on an ongoing basis, and not experience any serious problems in the future.

If you plan to use bottled gas, then you can mount a special cabinet near the wall of the bath.

• In terms of the heating rate of a steam room, gas ovens are in no way inferior to wood-burning or electric ones, but at the same time their operation will be much cheaper, due to the quite affordable cost of "blue fuel".
• Modern models of gas bath stoves are distinguished by enviable durability, and the manufacturer gives them a very good factory warranty.
• Many models of gas stoves for a bath have already been given an appropriate appearance in advance, which does not require any modifications. However, there are those that require mandatory bricking or complete closure on all sides with a heater.
• It is also important for traditionally cramped bathing conditions that gas stoves are usually compact.

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Brick cladding technology for a metal furnace

To close the sauna stove with a brick screen or even completely lay it in a similar "case" is a quite feasible task for independent execution. A special article of our portal will tell the reader more about this - "How to brick an iron stove with your own hands".

Essential disadvantage there is only one such stove. As with any other gas equipment, they require the approval of the installation by the appropriate organization and the connection of the main line. This means that you will have to order the preparation of the project, and then deal with its approval by the authorities, which is always accompanied by the loss of time, nerves, and additional material costs. But the advantages of gas ovens still outweigh this "minus".

The basic structure of a gas bath stove

In this regard, there is nothing particularly unusual. Moreover, many models are almost a complete copy of wood-burning stoves, with the only difference being that instead of a window with a door for loading firewood, they have a special panel with a gas burner mounted on it. Some stoves are generally universal - you can purchase for them both a firebox for using firewood, and a unit with a gas burner and a remote control system.

The sauna stove P-2GT, at the request of the consumer, can be equipped with a gas block and / or a fuel receiver for firewood ...

... and, depending on the installed module, becomes either solid fuel or gas

However, there are also completely unique designs of gas baths, one of which will be discussed below.

Let's take a look at a typical design of a gas bath stove using the popular Termofor Urengoy model as an example:

Schematic diagram of a typical gas oven for a bath

The main unit, where, in fact, heat generation occurs, is the firebox or combustion chamber (pos. 1). Its walls are most often made of high-strength alloy steel with a thickness of at least 4 ÷ 5 mm, which ensures the duration of trouble-free operation of the device.

The outer casing (item 2), also steel, but already with metal about 3 mm thick, is separated from the furnace body by an air gap. Since the air is completely open from below, and there are special slot-like or round windows (item 3) around the perimeter, this design becomes a very powerful convector, which, due to the directed flows of hot air, warms up the entire volume of the steam room as quickly as possible.

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On the side facing the dressing room, the stove usually has an elongated fuel channel (item 4), which allows the loading window and, accordingly, the gas equipment to be removed from the steam room through the wall.

A panel (item 5) is mounted inside the fuel channel, covering it and serving as a basis for attaching the gas block (item 6) from the outside and gas burners (item 7) from the inside.

Different models of stoves can assume the installation of different types of gas burners. In this case, the Sakhalin kit with two burners was used.

Domestic gas burner "Sakhalin" based on the famous Italian automatic system. Equipped with an automation unit (can be completely non-volatile), a built-in gearbox, an automatic piezo ignition system.

Burners can differ in terms of the generated heat output, that is, if the internal dimensions of the furnace allow, it is possible to vary this parameter by choosing the appropriate gas block.

So that the gas equipment does not disharmonize with the decoration of the dressing room or the rest room, the window of the fuel channel is framed around the perimeter with a decorative metal trim (pos. and taken away by a heat-resistant translucent screen (item 9).

Naturally, any sauna stove requires a heater. The compartment for laying out stones can be located on top, as in the shown model (pos. 10), along the front or side walls, and sometimes even almost completely cover the entire furnace body.

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The stove "Siberian cliff", the heater of which covers the entire body of the device and is held in place by a forged grate. A wood-burning option is shown, but the installation of a gas block is not excluded.
In addition, some types of sauna stoves presuppose the presence of two stoves - an open one and a closed one, to which a channel for pouring water leads for a special mode of steam generation.

A feature of the gas bath stove "Termofor Taimyr INOX" is the presence of a second, internal heater

The illustration shows a similar model of the stove, but already equipped, in addition to an external one, also with an internal heater (pos. 13). This compartment is in direct contact with the burner flame, therefore it is additionally protected from below by a shield (pos. 14). To create a specific steam generation, closer to the traditional Russian bath, a funnel with a tube (pos. 15) is provided, leading directly to the internal stone laying.

By the way, stones, as a rule, are not included in the oven kit and are purchased separately. The model's passport data usually indicates the required amount of minerals for laying. When choosing stones, a certain amount of caution should be exercised - just boulders picked up on the street may turn out to be unsafe for health - no one except a specialist can predict their exact chemical composition, and how they will behave during high-temperature heating. Therefore, it will be optimal to purchase special minerals - they are sold in stores of bath accessories and equipment. This, for example, can be jadeite, talcochlorite, gabbro-diabase and other stones. However, this is already a topic for a separate conversation.

Like any stove, the sauna heater has a branch pipe for connecting a chimney of a certain diameter (pos. 11). And the initial, necessarily single-walled section of the pipe (pos. 12), is often used to install a tank for heating water.

To heat the water, a tank is used, installed at the initial section of the chimney.

However, the options for heating water may be different. For example, the tank can be hung on the side or rear stack of the oven (if it is not made according to the convection scheme).

Sauna stove "Ermak Lux": three walls are made as convectors to provide air heating, and the fourth one is used for direct heat exchange with a suspended water tank

A fundamentally different option is also used. In some models of stoves, a heat exchanger is placed in the fuel combustion zone, which is connected by pipes to a water tank located in the washing compartment.

This is also one of the modifications of the Ermak sauna stoves, but already with a heat exchanger installed inside for heating water

Due to the temperature difference at the inlet and outlet of the heat exchanger, natural circulation is created, and there is always a supply of hot water in the remote tank.

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One of the options for organizing water heating for bathing needs is using an internal heat exchanger, a remote tank and the organization of natural circulation

The furnace body can be finished in different ways. Usually this is a metal surface covered with heat-resistant paint, more often black, but sometimes it can also be of various shades, so you can choose a steam room for the overall design.

Stoves are not only black - some models are also given more "fun" shades

Some stoves are additionally lined with polished natural stone with a beautiful texture. Often, buyers are offered an interesting option - they themselves can order the external finish of the purchased device. Expensive, of course, but worth it.

Gas sauna stove "KUTKIN" with exclusive finishing with natural stone

However, there are also completely “budgetary options, which, in principle, do not provide for any factory finishing at all. A striking example of this is the line of gas ovens of the Zhara brand. Some have the most common cylindrical horizontally located body made of a section of thick-cut pipe, plugged on one side, and on the other there is a rectangular elongated fuel channel in which a gas burner is mounted. A steel grate is welded to the top of the body along the perimeter, which forms a basket for laying stones.

Despite, perhaps, a somewhat rustic appearance, gas ovens "Heat" are fully capable of coping with their direct task

Unassuming, at first glance, appearance does not at all mean low quality. The stove is equipped with a very decent thermostatically controlled burner, but the brick finish, which we have already talked about above, can be done by every owner according to his own understanding.

And the bath gas stoves have a completely unusual design. They are a set of specially arranged, spiral-wound alloy steel pipelines through which air is pumped and gas combustion products are removed.

Unlike any other, the design of the Kusatherm gas bath stoves

There may even be several gas burners in such furnaces, as well as individual pipe circuits nested inside one another like a "nesting doll", and the furnace power in the largest models reaches 90 kW! And the "smallest" oven of this type has a power of 10 kW

One of the smallest in its line of gas oven "Kusatherm" after installation (left) and after erection of brick screens

It is clear that such a stove is not left in the "naked" form in the steam room - it must be covered with bricks or covered with some kind of screens. A stove basket is provided on top. The stove is distinguished by its high performance, but, unfortunately, the price is too frightening for our consumers, which is even scary to mention.

Installation of gas equipment

A gas-fired stove consists of the following elements: a stove, a gas-burner device, a stove, a base for installing a stove, mineral wool, expanded clay, a cover plate, a chimney, a refractory sheet.

When installing the main unit and the chimney, it is necessary to use a stainless steel pipe of the required diameter. You need to know that pipes can only be pulled through non-residential premises. Connecting gas pipes must not be present in residential areas

Special attention should be paid to the chimney when insulating to avoid heat loss. This is especially true for places near the roof, ceiling, slightly above the ceiling.

In winter, the appearance of condensation increases. In view of this, it is necessary to take care of the insulation of the pipe, since regular temperature drops lead to the destruction of the masonry and poor traction.

The installation of the gas oven should be done in such a way that the front side and the burner are directed through the opening, the height of which is 55-65cm, and the width is 42-46cm.It is not advisable to rigidly fix the oven on the floor, as well as to avoid contact with places that impede convective exchange. In the dressing room of the building, it is necessary to provide for a window vent and ventilation. The height of the room should be at least 220cm, and all doors should only open outward.

Gas sauna stove

works according to the following type: gas begins to mix with air in the compartment before it is admitted directly into the firebox. In addition, air enters the combustion space, thereby providing the required amount of oxygen. To regulate the amount of incoming air, a small door is provided at the bottom of the structure. In addition, it can be used to clean the burner.

Choosing a stove for a gas bath, many craftsmen prefer the SABK-5-50S automation. The principle of its operation is familiar to all those who have come across the operation of domestic-made gas heating boilers. This automatic system maintains the correct temperature level flawlessly. And since it uses four automatic protection systems, we can say that this is the safest design to operate. If an emergency occurs, the automation immediately turns off the heating equipment. Well, in order for the operation of a gas oven to provide a good rest, it is necessary to choose the oven correctly and carry out installation only by a specialist of the gas service.

What to look for when choosing a gas oven for a bath

If it is decided to purchase a gas stove for a bath, you need to focus on several basic selection criteria. And the main, of course, will be the required thermal power.

How to determine the power of a gas bath stove

According to its characteristics, the stove should be able to cope with its direct task - to create and maintain the required temperature in the steam room. That is, we are talking about the thermal power of the purchased unit.

It is usually assumed that one cubic meter of steam room volume requires about one kilowatt of furnace power, regardless of the type of fuel used. It would seem that everything is simple: multiply the linear dimensions of the room by height, length and width - and the desired value is "in your pocket." However, this issue has its own nuances.

This approach justifies itself only if the steam room has a full-fledged thermal insulation, made according to all the rules and on the basis of thermal engineering calculations, including with the recommended reflective vapor-proof material such as penofol. Then the natural wood lining does not require additional heat.

Warming the steam room is a task of special responsibility!

High-quality thermal insulation of this room is necessary for obvious reasons - it is necessary to maintain a high temperature there, without leading to a senseless excessive consumption of fuel or electricity. In addition, the thermal insulation must be able to withstand the “head” of a high concentration of water vapor. Optimal solution: application foil heaters for a bath - read about it in a special article on our portal.

But in practice, there are sections in the steam room, and sometimes very significant ones, which become "gaps" in the thermal insulation. They must also be taken into account by making the appropriate amendments.

• If there is a window in the steam room, then in any case it contributes to the loss of heat. In this case, it is necessary to add 3 kW (or 3 m³ to the volume of the room, as it is convenient for someone) for each m² of the window, if it has one glass, and 1.5 kW, if the window is with double glazing or double-glazed windows.

The presence of a window in the steam room obliges to increase the power of the sauna stove.

• Brick (stone) sections of the walls, or surfaces tiled with ceramic tiles, have a high heat capacity, and an additional 1.2 kW is added for each m2 of such a section.
• Log walls (or walls made of timber) have a very high heat capacity, but in order to create and maintain the desired microclimate in the bath, they must be warmed up. If the bathhouse in the log house does not have an internal thermal insulation lining, then the conditional volume of the steam room (that is, the power of the furnace) should be increased by one and a half times.

The log walls of the steam room will require a very significant amount of heat to fully warm up

• An uninsulated door (a thin wooden board or even a newfangled glass door) will require an additional 1.5 kW.
• When the fuel window is located in an adjacent room, heat losses through this "bridge" are inevitable as well. Therefore, it is necessary to make an amendment for this circumstance, about an additional 10 percent.

Whether we like it or not, the fuel window of the stove taken out into the next room (in the waiting room) is also a very "effective bridge" of the heat generated by the device.
In total, a very significant increase in volume can be accumulated. And, when choosing a stove, it is recommended to consider such models so that the calculated total value is approximately in the middle of the power range (or steam room volume) indicated in their passport.

And one more nuance: the furnace model can be one, but it can be equipped with burners of different power - this is also worth paying attention to.

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To make it easier for the reader to carry out the necessary calculations, below is an online calculator for calculating the required power of a gas oven for a bath.

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Other criteria for choosing a gas oven

• Steam rooms, as a rule, do not differ in a large area. And in order not to reduce the already cramped space, it is worth choosing a stove of commensurate dimensions so that its presence does not hinder the free movement of people.
• The best option would be a furnace with an elongated, remote fuel channel. That is, all control actions will not be carried out in the steam room, gas equipment will not “steal” space, and the safety of operating the stove and taking bath procedures will increase dramatically. Most modern models have just such a layout.
• In the passports of many models, the approximate gas consumption is indicated. Of course, the lower it is, the better, the more efficient the device works, that is, the higher its efficiency.
• Be sure to focus on what type of gas is acceptable for the stove to work. The fact is that some gas burners with which the furnaces are equipped are designed exclusively for natural gas network, while others allow the gearbox to be reconfigured and the nozzles are changed for a liquefied balloon one. Do not lose sight of this in order not to get into an unpleasant situation.
• As already mentioned, many stoves are versatile - they can also work on wood when changing the fuel block. This can be beneficial in the case when gas has not yet been supplied to the house, but in the near future such a possibility is seen. So that the bath does not stand idle, and in order to prevent unnecessary costs, such a model will become just a godsend - over time, it will be possible to simply install a gas burner instead of the loading window.
• You should probably think over the question of how the water will be heated in the bath in advance, and purchase the appropriate tank that is suitable for the selected model. Well, if you want to save space in the steam room as much as possible, then it is better to take the container to the washing room, and for the steam room to buy, for a little extra, a modification of the stove with a built-in heat exchanger.
• It is imperative that you carefully check all the documentation of the purchased stove - the store manager is obliged, upon request, to present certificates of quality and safety, the factory passport of the product with marks on the passage of technical control.If there is some confusion with the documents, or there are none at all, then you should refrain from buying.
• It will never be superfluous to thoroughly examine the device for external damage. Anything can happen during transportation, loading and unloading - but you need a high-quality stove!
• It is important - as a rule, stoves are not equipped with a stone insert, but the passport always says how many stones the baskets are designed for. These are not empty numbers, since the nameplate capacity of the furnace is designed specifically for the specified amount of minerals. And it is not recommended to make your own adjustments to this issue.
• You should not rush to cheap models of completely unfamiliar brands. There are cases that such accessibility is achieved by completely unacceptable economy of unscrupulous manufacturers on high-quality materials. This will then necessarily affect the operation of the device, and in the worst case, the safety of operation.

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It is best to purchase gas ovens from trusted, trusted manufacturers. By the way, this is exactly the case when there is no need to chase imported equipment. Russian companies produce excellent gas ovens - these are the above-mentioned Teplodar, KUTKIN, Ermak more than once. Many of them use components for gas automation from leading world brands.

European-made gas ovens are also very good, but their cost is usually significantly higher than domestic ones, with, in fact, equal characteristics and functionality.

Criterias of choice

How to choose a heating system for a bath? There are three main criteria for determining the winner:

1. Power.
2. Burner type.
3. Individual design characteristics.

A high-quality unit heats the steam room to 50 degrees in half an hour in the summer, and in 1 hour in the cold season.

The second parameter is the type of burner. Preference should be given to models with a built-in automatic protection system. This will make the process of using the heater pleasant and safe.

Pay attention to the construction of the chimney. It must fit the project of the bath: the diameter of the chimney must correspond to the diameter of the chimney.

Systems with mechanical structures are better at resisting moisture penetration into the structure.

Gas oven Taimyr

The Taimyr model is designed for a Russian bath. The equipment gives a suitable temperature for a Russian bath, maintains optimal humidity, and produces light steam. The capacity of the stove is enough to heat the room up to 25 cubic meters. It keeps the temperature in the steam room for a long time. The model complies with the safety standards of the Russian Federation.

"Taimyr" is designed in compliance with quality standards. Pleases with a simple and concise design. Will easily fit into the sauna interior.

A brief overview of popular models of gas stoves for a bath

In order to somewhat expand the information received by the reader, it makes sense to give a brief overview of models of gas bath stoves that are in wide demand among the Russian consumer.

And at the end of the publication - a short video telling in more detail about the Termofor Taimyr INOX gas sauna heater

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